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讲故事的人，听众和我们的故事
纸张及灯光装置
2021
Layla May Arthur精心制作手工切割的文书装置，这些文书被戏剧性地照亮，创造了一个超凡脱俗的环境。作为一名观众，你踏入作品的阴影，发现自己被复杂的图像和阴影在你皮肤上的轻微运动所吸引。你会暂时觉得自己仿佛置身于一个梦幻般的地方，周围的故事在呼吸，你沉浸在叙事对话中。
Layla在泽西岛上长大，小时候父母给她讲的故事给她带来了创作的灵感。在她出生之前，她的父母经常旅行，在她长大的过程中，父母与她分享来自遥远国度的故事。Layla的童年都在幻想这些故事中的生活和土地，并从父母的话中想象出他们的样子。她经常在童年游戏中表演这些故事，当她梦想着这些故事的可能性时，这些故事就变成了全新的叙述。
在她的作品中，Layla鼓励观众使用他们自己的联想和对她的图像的解释来梦想叙事从何而来以及它将走向何方。这不是关于故事情节的精确起源，而是我们如何在叙述中处理可能性。这些都是亚瑟回忆起童年时想象的故事片段;他们本来的样子，但也被她的想象所重建。
她邀请你走进她的故事世界，回想你已经知道的故事，并梦想你自己的新故事。
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THE STORYTELLER, THE LISTENER AND OUR STORY
Paper and Light Installation
2021
Layla May Arthur makes installations of meticulously hand cut paperwork, which are theatrically illuminated to create an otherworldly environment. As a viewer, you step into the shadows of the work to find yourself absorbed with the intricate imagery and slight movements of the shadows as they play over your skin. You temporarily feel as if you are in a dream like place, where the stories around you breath and you become immersed in the narratives dialogue.
Arthur found her inspiration for this work in the stories her parents told her as a child growing up on the island of Jersey. Her parents travelled frequently before she was born and as she grew up, shared with her stories from faraway lands. Arthur spent her childhood fantasising about the lives and lands in these stories and imagining from her parent’s words exactly what they looked like. She would frequently act out the stories in childhood games, where they would become entirely new narratives as she dreamed about the possibilities these stories could hold.
With her work, Arthur encourages the viewer to use their own associations and interpretations of her imagery to dream about where the narrative has come from and where is it going. It is not about a precise genesis of a storyline but how we work with possibility within narratives. These are the fragments of narratives which Arthur remembers imagining in her childhood; as they were, but also reconstructed by her imagination.
She invites you to step into her world of stories to think back on the stories you already know and to dream your own new narratives.
